The last blank spaces : exploring Africa and Australia

The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.더 읽기…

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The Last Blank Spaces" is particularly worth a read for historians of other nineteenth-century empires The Last Blank Spaces" at once surprises and makes the reader wonder why no one has thought to look at this subject in this way before Kennedy raises new and provocative questions in the long and often fraught conversation about power, class, and race on the margins of the British Empire.--Toby Harper"H-Net Reviews" (11/01/2014)"더 읽기…